Basupalli Vijay. PHOTO: Screengrab
A 19-year-old in Hyderabad, India hung himself from a tree in a farmland on Sunday, and a video he recorded of himself before the suicide has gone viral on WhatApp groups and reached police, reported Telegana Times.
The 14-second video has teenager Basupalli Vijay saying that he was ending his life because he had lost huge amounts of money betting on cricket. He cautioned his friends and relatives to stay away from betting. Vijay allegedly shared the video on a WhatsApp group before his death, but the police have not found the video on his cell phone.
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The revelation has the police in the hunt for those involved in the betting racket which caused the teenager to end his life, with the possibility of them being charged with abetment of suicide. “We are verifying Vijay’s call data records and also inquiring with his friends," Shankarpally Sub-Inspector K Kranthi Kumar said.
"He had done his schooling from Langer Houz and we suspect he could have had contacts with a cricket betting gang based there.”
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The initial assumption was that Vijay, an intermediate dropout, had committed suicide after his farmer father had rejected Vijay’s demands for money. After an argument with his father, Vijay had stomped out of the house and a few hours later, his father found him hanging from a tree at a nearby farmland.
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On Friday, a week after the incident, a policeman received the recorded video on WhatsApp that Vijay allegedly shot before his death. The section under which the case was initially registered, that of Section 174 of CrPC (unnatural death/suicide) would be altered based on the findings of the investigation, Kumar said.
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